Basic information

The State Veterinary and Food Institute was founded in 1992 as an independent diagnostic and testing workplace of the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic. Gradual improvement in laboratory activities, mainly the introduction of highly contemporary operation procedures with preference on the quality of testing and diagnostic work, the Institute has risen to become a level of international criteria, resulting in a maximum confidence in respect of professional standards.
The State Veterinary and Food Institute obtained:

In 1995, SNAS Certificate of Accreditation Nr. 02/1995, with the last re-accreditation Nr. S - 117 in 2007

The State Veterinary and Food Institute Dolný Kubín is a modern diagnostic workplace under the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic (SVFA SR). The founder is the Ministry of Agriculture of the SR. Activities results of the Institute serve the SVFA SR and specialists in the process of ensuring veterinary care within the valid legislative rules. Above all, it is a question of ensuring production animal health, safety of animal products, food and food raw materials of animal and plant origin. Testing activities of the Institute are used by the legal and natural persons for the purpose of own checks in food and agricultural premises, import and export of food, beverages, feed and feed materials, as well as on behalf of the registration and certification of novel food and feed products. The outcomes of the Institute are also utilized in the area of environmental monitoring in food industry and environmental burdens of food chain.